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Chapter 620 Goodbye Yan Shenggong

Yang Reform broke up the small court meeting, and he and Sun Chengzong made a decision on the grassland, and then he received a report from Wang Chengen, and Yan Shenggong asked to see him.

Yang Reform pondered for a while and said, "Let Yan Shenggong come to see me."

"Slave obeys the order!" Wang Chengen promised.

……

It's still under the shade.

In the small pavilion, Yang Reform plans to meet Kong Yinzhi here.

"Your majesty." Yan Sheng Gong Kong Yinzhi immediately saluted respectfully as soon as he came in, not sloppy at all, and the etiquette was the best.

"There's no need for such a big gift, Lord Yan Sheng, get up." Yang Reform said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En." Kong Yinzhi was serious again, and got up very seriously, without any mistakes.

Looking at Kong Yinzhi's extremely serious face, and not knowing what this guy was thinking, Yang Reform thought for a while, and decided to end the matter between himself and the Kong family.

"Big companion, I want to have a good chat with Yan Shenggong, and clear the surroundings so that no one can eavesdrop." Yang Reform said.Yang Reform just wanted to tell Kong Yinzhi some things, and he didn't want others to hear them, so he cleared the scene first.

"Slaves obey the order!" Wang Chengen immediately understood the meaning of the emperor, knowing that the emperor was going to say something important, and immediately drove the surrounding eunuchs, maids, and guards away.

"Does Yan Shenggong know what I'm going to say today?" Yang Reform asked, although he was smiling, but his words had turned cold. It wasn't that Yang Reform couldn't control his emotions and laughed so coldly. But what Yang Reform and Kong Yinzhi said was too cold.

"Report to Your Majesty, I don't know." Kong Yinzhi thumped in his heart, knowing that he was going to suffer. He didn't know what the emperor wanted to say to him in such a big battle today. Looking at the emperor's face, although he was smiling, it was very scary. , Kong Yinzhi's heart immediately sank. It seems that the emperor's prejudice against his family is not so deep.

"I summoned the Qing family today because I wanted to chat with the Qing family about Confucianism and the Confucian family." Yang Reform's smile was gone, and there was only a cold voice.

"I listen to the hadith." Kong Yinzhi felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar when he heard the icy voice. How could it be so cold in such a big sky?

"I don't know how Han Yu and Cao Yubian are talking with Yan Shenggong..." Yang Reform's cold words began with this sentence, tearing the surface and asking the core content directly, without dragging the water at all.

"Ah!..." Kong Yinzhi's heart was instantly defeated by the emperor, the emperor asked viciously!Did you answer the question or did you not talk about it?Now that we have talked about it, is it good or bad?I must have seen it before, and it was discussed by the public. This is almost an open matter. If the emperor doesn't care about it, it's nothing.

"...Return to Your Majesty, I have indeed met Mr. Han Ge and Mr. Cao Zongxian, but I have not promised them anything! Your Majesty has learned from you." Kong Yinzhi's forehead began to sweat, and the emperor really didn't give him any face. what!Ask such straightforward questions.Kong Yinzhi knew that this problem was serious, and the dispute over tax payment might have come to an end.

"I believe that from the perspective of the Confucian family, they will not easily make promises to others. I believe what Yan Shenggong said." Yang Reform still spoke coldly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your enlightenment." Kong Yinzhi's self-cultivation skills have been perfected, and there is no major change on the surface, but in his heart, he is afraid. Judging from today's posture, it is really not a good thing.

"I also believe that from the perspective of the Confucian family, I will not easily make any promises to Han Yu and Cao Yubian, let alone make any promises to me, right?" Yang Reform's words are like A sharp knife cut open Kong Yinzhi's appearance continuously.

"Your Majesty!..." Kong Yinzhi couldn't stand up any longer, and knelt down. This was a word of punishment, so he could only kowtow on the ground.

"Yan Shenggong doesn't have to be so afraid. I don't have any malice towards the Qing family. I just tell the truth with my heart." Yang Reform still scratched Kong Yinzhi with a sharp knife.

"Your Majesty, I have absolutely no dissent towards Your Majesty. The Kong family has absolutely no intention of betraying Daming. Please learn from Your Majesty!" Even though Kong Yinzhi had a bad preparation for today's events, he was still frightened by the emperor's words. A half-dead, saying this means that his Kong family is doing things behind the emperor's back!To put it more seriously, it is treason, this crime is so serious that there is no limit...

"I believe what Yan Shenggong said. From the perspective of the Kong family, it is easy to understand. The preferential treatment of the Kong family in the past dynasties is not something unique to the Zhu family. According to the status of the Kong family, you don't have to care at all. These disputes, these disputes, no matter who wins or who loses, have nothing to do with the Kong family. The Kong family is still Yan Shenggong, isn't it? Therefore, I believe that Yan Shenggong will not easily agree to Han Yu and Cao Yu Don't do anything..., let alone do something that betrays me and the court..." Yang Reform looked at Kong Yinzhi with sharp eyes, and his words fell lightly, but they fell heavily on Kong Yinzhi's heart. On him, Kong Yinzhi was so pressed that he couldn't lift his head.

"Your Majesty is holy, Your Majesty is holy!" Kong Yinzhi couldn't raise his head anymore, he just felt that something was pressing on him heavily on his neck, making him unable to lift his head.

"...Leaving aside, the Song Dynasty is over, and the next is the Yuan Dynasty. The Kong family was Yan Shenggong in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, it is still Yan Shenggong. Although the dynasties are different, it actually has no influence on the Kong family. It’s gone, it’s my Zhu family’s Daming, and the Kong family is still Yan Shenggong, so I believe that Yan Shenggong will not take sides, and even the emperor, in the eyes of the Kong family, maybe, it’s not a big deal. What, preferential treatment to the Kong family is a given. Even if I am the emperor, it is impossible, and I dare not do anything to the Kong family. Therefore, Yan Shenggong should ignore me, let alone Han Yu, Cao Yubian and the others. , Is that right?" Yang Reform's words were like a bloody knife, constantly scraping Kong Yinzhi's body back and forth, the knife saw flesh and blood.

Kong Yinzhi trembled and prostrated himself on the ground, enduring the stinging pain like a steel knife scraping a bone.

"I'm guilty of death..., capital crime..." Kong Yinzhi had no strength to speak anymore. The emperor's words were so cold that he shivered all over; the emperor's words were too sharp, and it was like cutting flesh.

"...I also believe that when my Ming Dynasty perishes one day, the Kong family will still be Yan Shenggong. If Daming is destroyed by my hands, the Qing family may write a letter of advice to the next emperor, and submit a letter of advice... ..." Yang Reform's words were unusually cold, and there was also some disappointment in his cold words.If I hadn't traveled to this era by myself, this sentence would have come true, and the great rivers and mountains would have been handed over to others. From then on, China began a life of regression and suffering for hundreds of years.

This sentence is even worse than killing Kong Yinzhi. His family is a descendant of a saint. The next emperor writes a letter of persuasion and puts up a letter of persuasion. This is to put "propriety", "benevolence", "righteousness" and "loyalty" in place?What about the principle of the monarch, the minister and the minister?And where?Kong Yinzhi didn't even dare to make an excuse. The emperor's words just now were very clear. Speaking of the former Song and Yuan Dynasties, if he wanted to defend himself, then what the emperor said just now was farting?This is an ironclad fact.One dynasty is over, and the next dynasty will come, his family will definitely continue to be Yan Shenggong, and be the courtiers of the new dynasty, not what will happen in the future, but what it is already like.

"Kong Yinzhi!...raise your head...look into my eyes..." Yang Reform was lost for a while, and then ordered Kong Yinzhi to raise his head. This time, he wanted to completely break Kong Yinzhi's psychological defense line Destroy, let him follow the path he set.In this Chinese feudal society where Confucianism is dominant, the roots of many social problems are related to Confucianism, and Confucianism cannot be bypassed in order to change, and Confucianism is a root or a microcosm of Confucianism, or a key The point is to achieve the goal of changing Confucianism by changing Confucianism, which is Yang's reform strategy.

Kong Yinzhi lay on the ground, trembling already, and when he heard the emperor asked him to raise his head, he felt even more fear, for fear that when he raised his head, he would see a ferocious beast, and when he heard the emperor asked him to raise his head to look into the emperor's eyes , I am even more afraid of seeing the anger in the emperor's eyes, for fear that the anger will burn him completely.

Kong Yinzhi didn't dare to raise his head, and he didn't want to raise his head, but he lifted his head up as if possessed, and looked at the emperor tremblingly, looking into the emperor's eyes.In the eyes of the emperor, there is loss, the pain, remorse, and anxiety transmitted layer by layer through time and space;

It was the first time for Kong Yinzhi to see so much information in a person's eyes, and when the information was transmitted, he felt as if he had personally experienced it.Fear, fear, depression, loss, pain, remorse, sadness, pity and other thoughts passed through his body...

In an instant, Kong Yinzhi seemed to have passed a hundred years.

"Your Majesty, I'm guilty of death. I should be loyal to Your Majesty, and the Kong family should be loyal to Ming..." Kong Yinzhi bowed his head deeply, and kowtowed heavily to beg for death.

"I am not saying that the Qing family is disloyal, nor is it that the Kong family is disloyal, nor is it asking the Qing family and the Kong family to accompany me and Daming to die together. Dangyan Shenggong..." Yang Reform took back his gaze from looking directly at Kong Yinzhi, and said lightly, the sadness and loss that could not be wiped away were still in his words.

"I'm guilty of capital crime..." Kong Yinzhi's voice became flat and without a trace of emotion, as if the whole person had been emptied.

"This is my truth, not a lie, nor an angry word, nor an irony..." Yang Reform continued to speak calmly.

Kong Yinzhi raised his head and looked at the emperor, his eyes were completely blank.

"If my country perishes, I don't want the world to perish too. The subjugation of the country is my reason, and I will never shirk the responsibility that should be borne by me, but I can't let the world perish too. , that is the extermination of the species, it is my descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties who are extinct.... I can thank the world with death for the subjugation of the country, and I can afford it, but I cannot afford the death of the world. Even if I die, I am still a Sinners are the sinners of the entire land of China and Chinese civilization... and Confucianism or Confucianism is the key to the continuation of the world. A dynasty named the Confucian family as Yan Shenggong, which means that the world is still continuing. No matter who becomes the emperor, we must continue our Chinese civilization. There is still room for my descendants to survive. Therefore, the Confucian family is at this point. In fact, although I don’t like it, I still support it...” Yang Reform said lightly, although he doesn’t like Confucianism, and even despises Confucianism, but he has to say that Confucianism has a strong vitality in the continuation of civilization. In the long river of history, only Chinese civilization has a long history and continuous energy. Confucianism has also played a lot of roles. Although I don't like it, I have to admit that it is useful.

When Kong Yinzhi heard what the emperor said, tears flowed from his eyes, and finally there was some color in his eyes.

"Your Majesty..., Your Majesty..." Kong Yinzhi burst into tears, choking with sobs.

"Don't cry, this is from my heart. Although I don't like what the Kong family did, if there comes a day, I will let the Kong family do things according to the Kong family's position, and I will not ask the Kong family to be buried with me in Daming , The continuation of my Chinese people is the biggest thing." Yang Reform sighed and said lightly.

"Your Majesty..., woo woo woo..." Kong Yinzhi's tears fell to the ground along the way of his crying, full of mixed flavors!
"Today I brought Yan Shenggong here to analyze what's in my heart, just to get rid of this knot in my heart." Yang Reform said with a sigh.

"Your Majesty..." Kong Yinzhi was still in tears, choking with sobs.

"The dispute over tax payment is not a fight for my own self-interest, but a fight for my Ming Dynasty's century, or even hundreds of years of national fortune. It can also be said that it is a fight for the people of the world... If it is only for some self-interest And power, for some money, why did I make such a big fuss? With my method of making money, it can be said that it takes no effort at all, but now I spend so much energy to start a dispute over tax payment , why bother?..." Yang Reformed looked into the distance.

"...As I said just now, although I hope that the Kong family can continue Yan Shenggong, doesn't Yan Shenggong feel that from the Han and Tang Dynasties to the present Song and Ming Dynasties, this history is not going in circles? It has continued like this from generation to generation. Although my Chinese civilization has a long history, I have to say that I am standing still. I want to keep going like this in China, but it is not likely that others will follow my Huaxia. I hope to break this vicious circle , to break this fate, as for why, the Qing family should read "Kan Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu" more, and you should understand how I feel. I can subjugate the country, but I don't want to perish. Many things have to be prepared in advance, especially related to perishing. I can afford the destruction of the world, the destruction of the species, the subjugation of the country, but the destruction of the species and the destruction of the world, I cannot afford it, the Qing family, the Confucian family, and the Confucianism cannot afford it..." Yang Reform continued.

"...The Qing family may think that what I said was too pessimistic, but the fact is that the barbarians sailed through the waves and traveled tens of thousands of miles to come to Daming, bringing not only more powerful astronomy, calendar, arithmetic, but also Even more powerful guns and artillery machinery, if the Yi people are too far away from my Ming Dynasty, what about the Japanese country? I also know that Yan Shenggong looks down on everything except Confucianism, but if you don’t eat the food grown by farmers, don’t wear silkworm cocoons to peel it out silk, without tools made by craftsmen, without supplies sold by merchants, can this person still live? The Confucian characters are separated, which means people need. People not only need the food grown by farmers, but also the clothes made by farmers and craftsmen , utensils, also need to be trafficked by merchants from north to south, and soldiers are needed to resist the enemy and defend the country. These are all human needs. Together, they are Confucianism. The tool of civilization, Confucianism, should be in line with his original intention..." Yang Reform still said.

Kong Yinzhi lowered his head, unable to see any changes, his eyes still seemed to have no spirit.

"...I talk too much, that's all, let's end this topic here, I feel uncomfortable in my heart, just say it..., I'll change the topic..." Yang Reform sighed.Looking at Kong Yinzhi, it seems that there is no movement. After thinking about the process of today's conversation, I know that I have done almost the same in this regard. If this topic continues, Kong Yinzhi is afraid that he will not have to do anything other than commit suicide. .

"... If I remember correctly, the Kong family has never produced a saint since the Kong family produced a saint, right?" Yang Reform said lightly with some sadness, and changed the topic to avoid the topic just now.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there is only one sage in the Kong family, and there are no other sages." Kong Yinzhi seemed to regain his composure when he heard this question, and answered quickly.

"What about the sub-sage? Are there other sub-sages?" Yang Reform asked again, looking at Kong Yinzhi's eyes with a bit of light, Yang Reform was relieved a lot, otherwise, just saying that kind of words , not to scare Kong Yinzhi to death, but also to drive Kong Yinzhi crazy.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there is nothing." Kong Yinzhi's eyes flickered a few times, isn't Yasheng Mencius?There is only one sub-sage, and naturally there are no other sub-sages, let alone the sub-sages of the Kong family.

"Oh, what about the sages? Does the Kong family have other sages?" Yang Reform asked again.

"Return to Your Majesty, yes, Kong Rong and Kong Wenju in the Eastern Han Dynasty..." Regarding the glory of his ancestors, Kong Yinzhi answered very succinctly, although his eyes still lost a lot of brilliance.

"Oh, what about the others? Are there any?" Yang Reform asked persistently.

"Back to Your Majesty, it seems that there is no more." Kong Yinzhi replied. [I really can't think of the Kong family and those sages. 】

"Sigh..., as expected, the Kong family has stood still! This Yan Shenggong has been in business for a long time, and people are useless. If the Kong family has an enterprising spirit, it will not be another one or two thousand years. Saints, even sages..." Yang Reform said regretfully.

"Your Majesty..." Kong Yinzhi had stopped crying, and his face was full of tears. Although he wanted to argue with the emperor, his mind went blank and he didn't know how to argue. The emperor's words seemed to be right.

"Ah..., it seems that I am right. Confucianism is in a state of being self-styled, and the Confucian family is the same!" Yang Reform said intentionally, that's all, and looked at Kong Yinzhi, who had already returned at this time. After a while, some gods came, and there was some brilliance in his eyes. Maybe he was too fierce. This guy almost became an "idiot". Looking at him now, he seems to be much better.

"I called Yan Shenggong here today because I wanted to speak out what was in my heart, and to say something from the bottom of my heart. I feel that only by opening up the words in my heart can I unravel my feelings towards the Kong family." I have a knot in my heart, and my words are a little too aggressive, please don't take it to heart..." Yang Reform changed the subject, and comforted Kong Yinzhi again.

"I am ashamed and dare not be responsible. I have no talent for peace and stability, and I have no ability to stabilize the country. I can only rely on the shade of my ancestors to live in a muddle. I am really shameless, ashamed, ashamed, and dare to blame your majesty." Kong Yinzhi seemed to have turned around a little God has come, and he has begun to speak sharply, and his appearance is somewhat the same as when he first came.

"Actually, I summoned the Qing family today because I want to get the help of the Qing family. As Yan Shenggong, the descendant of the sage Kong, I hope to get the help of the Qing family in the Confucian word dispute. A breakthrough in this area, I think, could not be better. In reality, the dispute over Confucian characters is also related to the dispute over tax payment. As I just said, what is human need? It is the need for farmers Planting food requires farmers and craftsmen to weave objects, merchants need to sell goods, exchange what is needed, soldiers need to go to resist foreign humiliation, need safety, need treatment when sick, and need someone to support when they are old. How can that person live? Without these, the species will perish. Why do Confucianists look down on these things? I hope that today's Confucianism can make some improvements. I put it bluntly, and I hope the Qing family can understand..." Yang Reform changed from the sharp tone just now, and talked with Kong Yinzhi in a harmonious voice.

"Your Majesty, what is your virtue and ability to take on this important task, it is not enough to complete this matter..." Kong Yinzhi thought for a while, then refused.

"The Qing family, don't be in a hurry to refuse. The Qing family alone is really not enough to do this. However, with my help, the Qing family will have almost no difficulty in doing this. I dare not say that I will create a saint again. A sage can still do it, if the Qing family has a high level of comprehension, Yasheng is not without a share..." Yang Reform interrupted Kong Yinzhi, and said.

Kong Yinzhi looked a bit demented after recovering, and became demented again.

"...The Qing family, look at the sun in the sky..." Yang Reform pointed upwards.The sun passed through the shade of the trees, shone into the gazebo, and shone on Kong Yinzhi's body.Kong Yinzhi looked up along the sunlight, dazzled for a while, quickly shrank his head, his eyes were blank, his mind was blank, and he was still kneeling there.

"...It's not that I'm talking big. If there is enough time, even the sun, the moon and the stars, I can crush them to pieces. Let alone a mere saint, creating a saint is nothing to me. Difficult things..." Yang Reform said with some mystery.

Originally, he just got better, but after recovering from some god Kong Yinzhi, his mind was blank again, and even the stars were crushed to pieces?This... Kong Yinzhi couldn't think anymore.

"...This is definitely not my big talk. Of course, the premise is to give me enough time..." Yang Reform said mysteriously, seeing Kong Yinzhi looking up at the sun...

"... I believe that the Qing family should also know about my reputation. I never talk in empty words. Since the promised things can be fulfilled, the Qing family may be too surprised to say that they smashed the sun, moon and stars into pieces. It is impossible. I really can't prove it to the Qing family for the time being, but I can show it to the Qing family when I created a saint. The Qing family has seen how I made a saint. I believe that the Qing family should believe me I'm capable..." Yang Reform said domineeringly, crushing Kong Yinzhi to death with his momentum, Kong Yinzhi was already kneeling on the ground, looking at the sun like an idiot, and was overwhelmed by the emperor's domineering words. Well, my mind went completely blank.

"...I still want to declare that no matter what, I have no ill will towards Confucianism, nor towards the Confucian family, nor towards the Qing family, no matter whether my country is subjugated in the future, or the Ming Dynasty is subjugated in the future, I will not blame you The Qing family will not blame the Confucian family, let alone Confucianism. The Qing family will follow the path that should be taken. I will only thank the Confucian family. Confucianism does have a unique side in continuing civilization. I don’t want to perish, the whole world..., although I have some opinions on the Qing family, but since I talked about it today, the grudges in my heart have gone, and I will not have grudges against the Kong family in the future..., I am sincere I hope the Confucian family can help me, establish a heart for the world, a life for the people, inherit the knowledge of the past, and bring peace to all generations. I have always appreciated these words. For my sake, help me..." Yang Reform lowered his posture to talk to Kong Yinzhi.

At this time, Kong Yinzhi's mind was blank, and he was full of mixed feelings. This life is really full of ups and downs. This short half hour is longer than what he has experienced in half his life.

Kong Yinzhi prostrated himself on the ground, not knowing whether to cry, laugh, or yell.

"When the Qing family goes back, it will be the same as before. As long as today's incident has not happened, if you want to help me, after you have seen my methods, you can interpret it in the new interpretation of Confucian characters. Naturally, I know the Qing family's intentions." If the Qing family can help me, everything I say will count. Although I have a new understanding of Confucian characters, I guarantee that Confucianism is still the foundation of governing the country; if the Qing family does not intend to help me, I will not blame Qing My family, everything about the Kong family is as usual, and I will not have any bad plans for the Kong family. I still have this capacity. The Qing family can keep in mind what I said today, and I always keep my word..." Seeing Yang Reform Today I have said almost everything I need to say, so I plan to let Kong Yinzhi go back.

"Minister Zunzhi!" Kong Yinzhi's mind was blank, and he replied mechanically, the posture of prostrate on the ground finally changed.

"...Oh, I just remembered, there is one more thing I want to say, although Han Yu and Cao Yubian fought fiercely with me, it seems that it is not good for me, but I am also saying here, even if I win They didn't intend to do anything to them, the court needs them to come out to oppose, there can't be only one voice, the Qing family can be regarded as a witness..." Yang Reform said again, although Han Yu, Cao Yubian and the others deliberately opposed him , Find fault with yourself, but as an emperor, you must have some opposing voices. Yang Reform is very clear about this. A monolithic court will only harm yourself. If you say it to Kong Yinzhi, you also say it to Cao Yu Bian listen.

"Your Majesty is righteous, I understand. I will remember what Your Majesty said today. I am leaving..." Kong Yinzhi, who was just about to get up, heard the emperor's words, and hurriedly got up again, and promised the emperor's words before he could stand Kande got up, and when he got up, he shook a few times, as if he had knelt for too long, and his legs and feet were a little weak.

Seeing Kong Yinzhi staggering away, Yang Reform was a little proud. He was one of the few emperors who could suppress Yan Shenggong to such an extent. Standing on my side, the fact that this guy's identity is doing this is too appropriate. If he doesn't participate, then I can only find a substitute, such as Liu Zongzhou. Although the effect is not good, it can still make do with it.

(End of this chapter)